Perspective Quotes - Page 24

Perspective is a powerful attitude, providing the ability to see circumstances, no matter how challenging, as an opportunity.

That's one of the compensations for being mediocre. One doesn't have to worry about becoming mediocre.

Wisdom is not measured by age ,Intelligence is not measured by grades ,Personality is not measured by what others say

What seems like a flaw is merely our higher consciousness telling us we're not looking at it in the right light yet.

A negative outlook is dangerous. When you say, “It can’t get any worse!” You're essentially challenging the universe to do exactly that.

I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS?

I don't understand why when I wish for happiness it inevitably rains. However, I do tend to find myself grateful for sunlight once the storm ceases.

Affirm yourself every day (especially after every setback) because no one else will do it for you.

The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex. To be, in a word, unborable … If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.

Your perception is your habitual perspective. The way you consciously choose to see life on a regular basis. The moment that you are aware of your perspective and detach to see things from a different point of view (Even SLIGHTLY) is the moment that your entire complexity from within you changes.

The author perceives nuances of Abigail Adams' character in the occasional errors she makes in readily quoting John Milton. Rather than giving the observer a reason to quibble, they are evidence that she had absorbed Milton's works enough to feel comfortable quoting them from memory.

Loosing is part of winning. You will have to walk through the shadow of failure to get to he winning side.

As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.

The lion does not need the whole world to fear him, only those nearest where he roams.

When you feel life is getting too cruel and insensitive… Look for a newspaper or poor streets… You will automatically gain perspective and start loving your Life. ~Kritika Sharma

Solitude, at first is scary. All you have is yourself. After a while its comforting, it knows the real you and cant judge you for it. If you live it long enough it becomes an addiction, like all things, too much of it and you will go insane but not enough of it will also send you there.n

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that your dreams, desires or goals are more important than fear.

Anything in your life achieved too soon or too freely with little sacrifice is lost too quickly

God’s peace and perspective are available to you through His Word.

We need to forgive the adolescent versions of ourselves, if only because we need the practice to forgive those who are maturing awkwardly in our lives.

There is no such thing as loving a child too much.

It’s difficult to accept full responsibility and apportion blame at the same time – you have to choose one.

Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.

In painting, three things must be considered - the position of the viewer, the position of the object viewed, and the position of the light that illuminates the object.

What you do consistently shapes your life.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

If I only looked at what I've lost, I'd never be able to see what I have.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

My father used to say, “a day spent breathing is a good day

The meaning of everything that occurs in your life is decided by the frame you put around it.

The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past.

We put up a kind of spiritual firewall and make a conscious effort to shut out the headlines, because our (Bible) discussions are meant to be timeless.

Sometimes a problem isn’t really a problem but the solution in disguise.

The best way of creating motivation is to do something. If you take action, motivation will follow

I tell you I can't be bothered with things like that. I've got a soul above buttons.

To have extreme, laser-like focus, you must be willing to reject a lot of opportunities, even if they sound great.

The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal

Anyone can choose to have success, but only the patient ones will get rewarded by it. Be relentless in chasing your dreams.

My personal definition of confidence is to keep believing that the stars in the solar system are actually watching and applauding you.

I think timing is better left up to God to decide then religious leaders. I once met a man that brought his wife flowers in the hospital. They held hands, kissed and were as affectionate as any cute couple could be. They were both in their eighties. I asked them how long they were married. I expected them to tell me fifty years or longer. To my surprise, they said only five years. He then began to explain to me that he was married thirty years to someone that didn’t love him, and then he remarried a second time only to have his second wife die of cancer, two years later. I looked at my patient (his wife) sitting in the wheelchair next to him smiling. She added that she had been widowed two times. Both of her marriages lasted fifteen years. I was curious, so I asked them why they would even bother pursuing love again at their age. He looked at me with astonishment and said, “Do you really think that you stop looking for a soulmate at our age? Do you honestly believe that God would stop caring about how much I needed it still, just because I am nearing the end of my life? No, he left the best for last. I have lived through hell, but if I only get five years of happiness with this woman then it was worth the years of struggle I have been through.

Beauty comes to us more readily on a full belly.

The definition of stupid is the inabilitly to see another side to an argument other than one's own.

Rather than pound or a national mind that he believed had been closed by his critics, John Quincy Adams decided to seek a place in the is the esteem of future generations.

Perspective makes all the difference. It’s not what you look at; it’s what you see… Remember that the sun never actually sets; it's our perspective that makes it appear to. Our sunset is another’s sunrise. It's all perspective. How would your life be different if you applied this truth to the things that cause you stress? Letting go isn’t about erasing the past; it’s about looking at the same event and seeing something different. Activate this power in your life! Take the pain and poison of the past and allow it to nourish a new found wisdom. Remember, you can't change the past, but you can change the labels you place on events. Perspective - it’s not what you look at; it’s what you see.

When you study God’s Word and incorporate His wisdom and principles into your daily life, your whole perspective will change.

Peace is not only the absence of war, but also a way of seeing the world, and the choices we make are how we express and manifest that vision of the world.

In a period of less than 150 years, to progress from slavery to Pennsylvania Avenue speaks volumes about this family and our nation. Distracted by the rush of our everyday life, we might shrug it off today, but 100 years from now, historians will be discussing this precedent.

You know what feels good to most of us when these obstacles, stresses and concerns consume us? Eating a dozen, warm chocolate chip cookies.Sure, there's always a time for chocolate chip cookies, but they aren't a solution to our problems. Neither is skipping the gym. Abandoning yet another weight loss attempt because life got too hard shouldn't be an option. It's no doubt annoying to have to count calories and keep burning calories when the world is going to hell around us, but it's important to keep perspective if you're actually going to be successful in losing weight. The perspective is that even through the pain and discomfort from a death, move, job loss, or general stress might last weeks, months, or even years, it is all temporary. Good health is, too.

Just as we seldom realize that we are growing old until we are already old, so do the contemporary actors in a major social change seldom realize that society is changing until the change has already come.

I will never again look at the homeless people the way I did before entering Bowery Mission.

But the biggest clue seemed to be their expressions. They were hard to explain. Good-natured, friendly, easygoing...and uninvolved. They were like spectators. You had the feeling they had just wandered in there themselves and somebody had handed them a wrench. There was no identification with the job. No saying, "I am a mechanic." At 5 P.M. or whenever their eight hours were in, you knew they would cut it off and not have another thought about their work. They were already trying not to have any thoughts about their work on the job.

You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.

(on learning Westlife had beaten Oasis, U2 and The Beatles in an album chart battle in November 2006): There is no God.

Don’t know if it’s good or bad that a Google search on “Big Bang Theory” lists the sitcom before the origin of the Universe

You are not white,but a rainbow of colors.You are not black,but golden.You are not just a nationality,but a citizen of the world.You are not just for the right or left,but for what is right over the wrong.You are not just rich or poor,but always wealthy in the mind and heart.You are not perfect, but flawed.You are flawed, but you are just.You may just be conscious human,but you are also a magnificentreflection of God.

Don’t be naïve – appearance matters. Style comes before substance during first impressions. People judge based on what they see before they find out what’s within.

The magic of life hides in the dusty corners of chaos and you must sweep out the cobwebs of confusion before you reach the calm & euphorically moments; your soul believed, existed all along.

A letter Lewis wrote reveals an 18-year-old with the energy of a schoolboy and the tastes of an octogenarian.

Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.

The more power you use--the more detailed the observation of your specimen.The more power you have, the narrower your field of vision.Exactly, you say. The more power you have, my friends, the less you see of the whole.